Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (977 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0292712677 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 348 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He is also the university's Director of Caribbean and Latin American Studies. MICHAEL J. HORSWELL is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature, Director of Graduate Studies, and Associate Chair of the Department of Languages and Linguistics at Florida Atlantic University
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The missionaries and civil authorities colonizing the Andes deemed these performances transgressive and sodomitical.In this book, Michael J. By deconstructing what literary tropes of sexuality reveal about Andean pre-Hispanic and colonial indigenous culture, he provides an alternative history and interpretation of the much-maligned aboriginal subjects the Spanish often referred to as "sodomites." Horswell traces the origin of the dominant tropes of masculinist sexuality from canonical medieval texts to early modern Spanish secular and moralist literature produced in the context of material persecution of effeminates and sodomites in Spain. Ritual performance by cross-dressed men symbolically created a third space of mediation that invoked the mythic androgyne of the pre-Hispanic Andes. These values traveled to the Andes and were used as powerful rhetorical weapons in the struggle to justify the conquest of the Incas.. Third-gender ritualists, Ipas, mediated between the masculine and feminine spheres of culture in important ceremonies and were recorded in fragments of myths and transcribed oral accounts. Early Andean historiography reveals a subaltern history of indigenous gender and sexuality that saw masculinity and femininity not as essential absolutes. Horswell examines alternative gender and sexuality in the colonial Andean world, and uses the concept of the third gender to reconsider some
About the Author MICHAEL J. . HORSWELL is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature, Director of Graduate Studies, and Associate Chair of the Department of Languages and Linguistics at Florida Atlantic University. He is also the university's Director of Caribbean and Latin American Studies